[ale] Secrets to coimpiling on RH7.2

[Chris Ricker]

On 28 Feb 2002, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> Note:
> 
> If you install gcc-3.0x from the RedHat 7.2 rpms, it will install it as
> gcc3. You have to install gcc-2.96 to be able to compile kernels. It's
> not as if gcc3 is broken for kernel compiles. It's more that kernel code
> uses too many older macros and deprecated code for gcc3 to finish. It
> will be a loooong time before the kernel is gcc3 compatible.

Actually, the kernel compiles with gcc 3 today (and has for a few months
now).  It's user-space that's the problem.  c++ code that works with gcc
2.9x will often not compile with gcc 3.0 or gcc 3.1....

later,
chris


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